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Just ot my Xperia before NY's eve and I love it! But I have a question - does anyone know a way to make predefined albums in the Media Panel instead of all my pictures appearing in one giant gallery? It just gather every single photo from the phone and memory card and displays them.. How do I make my own folders/galleries/etc..?
And maybe something simillar for the video seciotn of the Media Panel?
Cheers Xperiancers )
Heh I should have searched a bit more efore posting...... So no uck with this, no folders for the media panel
The thing that I wanted this for was to be able to play the cool "zooming-out-and-moving" slideshow that the media panel has with selected images rather than all of them, or just camera pics...
No way of having this?
Cheers
Anyone?
dreamerworx said:
The thing that I wanted this for was to be able to play the cool "zooming-out-and-moving" slideshow that the media panel has with selected images rather than all of them, or just camera pics...
No way of having this?
Cheers
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Anyone with the same issue?
I received my HTC Desire on Monday, and coming from an iPhone i felt that the built in music player was a bit lacking.
Then i discovered Cubed (Not allowed to post a link being a new member, but google "Cubed Android". Check it out!! It is such a nice application to use, and i thought other people may be interested in it, it runs beautifully on the Desire, and is definately an improvement over the stock music app!
appears in the market as 3 (supposed to be the little 3 that means cubed in maths....)
search the market for 3 by Filipe Arabantes.
And yes, it's pretty good. just a shame you don't get the music controls on the lock screen like with the built in player.
I've installed this on my Desire but I cannot see a widget. Should there be one?
youandwhosearmy said:
I've installed this on my Desire but I cannot see a widget. Should there be one?
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Yeah right at the top if your widgets list.
It doesnt show up in my widgets list, only programs list.
Shetlander said:
It doesnt show up in my widgets list, only programs list.
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Had an update today and now have 3 widgets in my list. Sorted. Great app.
I still prefer Wiki I have to say. It's a bit faster and intuitive. Plus I listen to a lot of screamy rock and it's helpful to know what they're on about.
Installed it a few days ago and very impressed so far. Love the interface, the only thing I'd really like to see is a lockscreen interface for playback control.
For those who didn't find it with the above searches:
Search for "Cubed music" on the market. You'll see the app appears as number "3".
Nice app, thanks for sharing.
I love this player.. only problem is some songs are missing that show in other apps?
Thank you for the recommendation
Brilliant app
Guitarfreak26 said:
I love this player.. only problem is some songs are missing that show in other apps?
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They will not be missing, they are found under 'miscellaneous'
I love this app. It looks great, and allows you to download album art pretty quickly, which is a dream.
My problem is that when I do a full scan, the art seems to be assigned to the wrong songs. Any way to fix it, or unassign the pictures and do a reassign?
There's an update available for this app via the Marketplace, downloaded it today.
My Fav player at the moment .. but I am still hunting for a good player like this with an EQ ... Seen a couple but nothing with a good UI.
Any recommendations?
Unfortunately no...The only player i have with EQ is called Audio Player with EQ (very original...),found it in the Market,but it doesn`t fullfills my dreams...only thing thats good about it is the EQ.
rhedgehog said:
appears in the market as 3 (supposed to be the little 3 that means cubed in maths....)
search the market for 3 by Filipe Arabantes.
And yes, it's pretty good. just a shame you don't get the music controls on the lock screen like with the built in player.
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The updated version will display the music controls on the lock screen.. very nice..
This app doesn't display any album art for me, everything is just black. =\
adjei7 said:
I love this app. It looks great, and allows you to download album art pretty quickly, which is a dream.
My problem is that when I do a full scan, the art seems to be assigned to the wrong songs. Any way to fix it, or unassign the pictures and do a reassign?
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If you press and hold on the art for a song, hold until the screen changes to a wall of images, and tap on the correct artwork
I only realised this myself by accident!
Only one think I miss in this app, is to set only one folder to scan for music (sdcard/mp3), because it shows sound files from other folders, which i don't want to listen to e.g. sound from satnav etc.
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I was wondering how we could set video screens to whatever place in the videos we wanted.
I don't want to have to open my video player or my galley to black screens. I'd rather set the scene so I know what I'm looking at.
For example I don't want to see a black screen where avatar is, but would rather see a screen shot. Anyone know if this is possible?
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Think the correct way to ask this is how you can customize the thumbnails in Gallery for video files. As for answer though I don't know but it certainly would be helpful since Gallery doesn't show file names.
Right, that's what I'm saying exactly. I didn't know how to put it so I described it.
My question is how can we edit the thumbnails for our gallery and video player, etc.?
Hey there, dont know how many of you care about playing MP3s on you Vibrant, but I love it. The downer for me right now is have a beautiful Super Amoled screen and then blurry album cover art when your playing your mp3s. Ive always manually imported my cover art with itunes. the cover art I use is typically 800x800, but of course the area on our phones that shows the cover art is much smaller. So all the more reason the picture should look just as sharp as it does on my monitor when Im playing music with windows media player or on my ipod. Anyone else notice there album art cover blurry looking.
I was literally just trying to figure this out as well. I thought that was just me. Not really sure how to fix it unfortunately.
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Hey there, dont know how many of you care about playing MP3s on you Vibrant, but I love it. The downer for me right now is have a beautiful Super Amoled screen and then blurry album cover art when your playing your mp3s. Ive always manually imported my cover art with itunes. the cover art I use is typically 800x800, but of course the area on our phones that shows the cover art is much smaller. So all the more reason the picture should look just as sharp as it does on my monitor when Im playing music with windows media player or on my ipod. Anyone else notice there album art cover blurry looking.
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Most likely iTunes down-rez'ed the pictures for iPod use. For our Vibrants a 480x480 would be the minimum resolution on the covers to not have to do any blow-up that causes pics to get blurry. What I've been doing is using Mp3Tag and just load the cover art into each song. Most of mine were downloaded off Amazon's CD pages or Google image search of the album name. They're mostly 300x300, 400x400, or 500x500. 300x300 does still look blurry but better than what MixZing downloads on its own.
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Most likely iTunes down-rez'ed the pictures for iPod use. For our Vibrants a 480x480 would be the minimum resolution on the covers to not have to do any blow-up that causes pics to get blurry. What I've been doing is using Mp3Tag and just load the cover art into each song. Most of mine were downloaded off Amazon's CD pages or Google image search of the album name. They're mostly 300x300, 400x400, or 500x500. 300x300 does still look blurry but better than what MixZing downloads on its own.
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At first I thought itunes may be compressing the Album Artwork as well, sorta how Kies was compressing imported pics. But then I realized it cant be itunes because the same mp3s display artwork full size and clear on windows media player. So Im actually thinking it may be the android operating system or the mp3 player on the phone. Gotta get fix because its really anoying me. This display doesnt deserve such low resolution pics.
It's the music player. If you use 3 or double twist the artwork is not blurry.
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I just double checked, it is indeed the default music player. Same mp3 file looks better on MixZing than on the default player.
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I just double checked, it is indeed the default music player. Same mp3 file looks better on MixZing than on the default player.
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Yes I just tried MixZing and the album art show crystal clear. I was trying ^3 and it has a really cool interface, the album art at first looked sharp but then it started using lower resolution art, even when I chose for it to use the embedded art. Couldnt get it resolved. I think I will stick with MixZing for now. If I dont run into any issues down the road, I will buy the full version. I cant think of why the stock player would use such low resolution album art on such a beautiful display. Hopefully they fix that in an update down the line.
It looks great on my songs. But I can't recall how I got the images on the albums. I think I may have used some software to download the images. Or I may have copied them over from iTunes. In any case, I don'tthink there is inherently anything wrong with the software.
This is a screenshot of one of my albums. It looks a little fuzzy on the desktop since it's just 480x800. But it looks fine on the phone.
http://picasaweb.google.com/milindr/Android#5513509779849766770
Mine too seems fine/clear. The artwork I used ranges from 200x200 to 1000x1000, and I used MediaMonkey to add it. It works pretty well for finding most album art but if I didn't like the quality I would just do a Google image search for a better copy.
Are you using embedded album art or just .jpg files in the folders?
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Mine too seems fine/clear. The artwork I used ranges from 200x200 to 1000x1000, and I used MediaMonkey to add it. It works pretty well for finding most album art but if I didn't like the quality I would just do a Google image search for a better copy.
Are you using embedded album art or just .jpg files in the folders?
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I'm also using media monkey and the album art is blurry. I do have embedded jpegs, but also copied them to the folder, because embedded were not showing.
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Now that uncle Sam fixed the media scanner not reading properly iTunes tags and album arts, there are tons cover arts appearing in the photo gallery!
Wonder if this is by design or a sort of bug?
There should be a way to hide those cover arts from the photo gallery....
Make a emty file called .nomedia and place in the folder or use program from Android Market to do it for u.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.studiokuma.nomedia
In what folder should I place the .nomedia file? I wish to use the album arts ONLY in the music player....
I see... maybe you mean in the Music folder? This will prevent the gallery to use those icons? But will it keep the music player to show correctly tha arts?
Yes it will prevent the art from showing in the stock media player. Get a media player where you set the folders, like poweramp, and then you can have the .nomedia file in the music folder to stop gallery from seeing it but the player will still pick it up
Humm...but i'd like the stock media player to show the album arts now that it works! What I'd like to disable is showing the album arts in the photo gallery
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Humm...but i'd like the stock media player to show the album arts now that it works! What I'd like to disable is showing the album arts in the photo gallery
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Well i hate to say it but your stuck. You can't remove them from the gallery without the nomedia file. In turn will hide the album art from stock player
Oh well! I will post a message to Samsung customer support!
It looks like they listen customer requests
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Oh well! I will post a message to Samsung customer support!
It looks like they listen customer requests
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Samsung can't do much it is a limitation in android.
I really hope you were joking about Samsung lol
I have all of my photos named folder.jpg/jpeg (I forget which extension) and they don't show up in the gallery.
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I really hope you were joking about Samsung lol
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Haha! No, really, I'm serious! I mean I've been messing with Nokia customer support for years, and basically it didn't exist, no wonder they're collapsing.
When I've noticed the .m4a missing tags and cover arts I have posted a message to Samsung customer support here in Italy and the day after I got a phone call from them and I was astonished when the guy told me that "Samsung is aware about this problem, because the media scanner is faulty when dealing with ID3 tags in .m4a" !!!!!!!
At the moment they're doing pretty well!
I just don't use default photo gallery. Try QuickPic for example. It can't show Picassa albums, but it allows good control about what folders to display and what not.
Good to know, I'll take a try, btw I was tryng to remove Picasa album showing
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Haha! No, really, I'm serious! I mean I've been messing with Nokia customer support for years, and basically it didn't exist, no wonder they're collapsing.
When I've noticed the .m4a missing tags and cover arts I have posted a message to Samsung customer support here in Italy and the day after I got a phone call from them and I was astonished when the guy told me that "Samsung is aware about this problem, because the media scanner is faulty when dealing with ID3 tags in .m4a" !!!!!!!
At the moment they're doing pretty well!
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I,wish you better luck then most,others have found when we have pointed out huge issues with them, and got we are working on it. That,was almost a year ago and guess what. Still not fixed.
I recommend QuickPic, it's a much faster and better gallery than that comes with Android. Also you can tap on a folder and exclude/hide it from the listing.
Awesome app, still wondering why Google hasn't bought the app and replaced the stock Android one with that one.
Well i hate to say it but your stuck. You can't remove them from the gallery without the nomedia file. In turn will hide the album art from stock player
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Wells it's not true. You can hide album arts from gallery simply by changing their names to "folder.jpg". Than gallery will ignore them, though player will still use them.
urfel said:
Wells it's not true. You can hide album arts from gallery simply by changing their names to "folder.jpg". Than gallery will ignore them, though player will still use them.
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NIce one this, worth it giving it a try... maybe with a subfolder-recursive script that does the job...
urfel said:
Wells it's not true. You can hide album arts from gallery simply by changing their names to "folder.jpg". Than gallery will ignore them, though player will still use them.
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Learn something new everyday. But there is no way I ma changing the files just for the system to change them back the next time i sync to my pc
Ahhh!!! I have just realized that those arts are related to mp3 with external album art only! The trick would simply be to repack cover art into the mp3 itself.... correct?
OT: now that the cover art is being used at larger resolutions,whne the music player plays the track, it shows some album arts with very poor resolution. I wonder if there's a tool that could list what tracks are using low resolution cover arts so they could be fixed...